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CNAS Congratulates Board of Advisors Member Richard Spencer on Nomination to Serve as Secretary of the Navy
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Richard Spencer, member of the CNAS Board of Advisors and Managing Director of Fall Creek Management, LLC, on his n...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump is breaking all of Obama's rules in Syria — and it seems to be working
As US President Donald Trump enjoyed chocolate cake with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, he ordered the military to do something his predecessor hadn't da...
By Nicholas Heras
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Following the Money: A Primer on Terrorist Financing
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Energy, Economics, and Security Program today released a series of graphics depicting how terrorist organizations finance their o...
By Ellie Maruyama & Kelsey Hallahan
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At the Comey hearings, some of the most revealing questions came from women
Images of female members of parliament winning a historic number of seats in the British elections Thursday stood in stark contrast to the mostly male images coming out of Was...
By Katherine Kidder
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As Raqqa Offensive Begins, CNAS Releases “A Strategy for Ending the Syrian Civil War”
Washington, June 7 – With U.S.-supported forces yesterday announcing the start of the long anticipated offensive on Raqqa, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle...
By Neal Urwitz
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The United States Is Getting Dragged Into the Fight for Syria’s South
AMMAN, Jordan — In recent months, the Syrian war finally seemed to be tilting in the direction of Muhannad al-Talla, the commander of a U.S.-backed rebel force. His group, Mag...
By Nicholas Heras
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In Nod to China, South Korea Halts Deployment of THAAD Missile Defense
North Korea fired four anti-ship cruise missiles into the waters between Korea and Japan on Thursday morning, just a day after the new president of South Korea put the brakes ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump's Qatar Curveball Makes Tillerson Improvise Policy Again
As the Qatar crisis erupted this week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found himself performing a familiar task: assuring the world his boss didn’t mean to reverse years...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Adam Klein Named New CNAS Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Adam Klein, formerly a CNAS Senior Fellow, has been named the CNAS Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow. The Center...
By Neal Urwitz
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No competition, no cost estimate as Kansas City firm picked for coveted VA contract
The Trump administration picked Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. for a coveted contract to modernize veterans health records, but the news came with a caveat: There will be no c...
By Phillip Carter
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Artificial Stupidity: Fumbling The Handoff From AI To Human Control
Science fiction taught us to fear smart machines we can’t control. But reality should teach us to fear smart machines that need us to take control when we’re not ready. From P...
By Paul Scharre
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Daniel Feehan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, Joins CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellow
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Daniel Feehan, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, has joined CNAS as ...
By Neal Urwitz
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US defense leaders offer Asia reassurances in age of Trump
Defense Secretary James Mattis and numerous other U.S. lawmakers addressed allies concerned about U.S. policy in the South China Sea region this week. In Singapore, Mattis vo...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Trump’s Hand in Military Matters
Roll Call's White House correspondent John T. Bennett talks to Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, about President Donald Trump...
By Paul Scharre
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Exclusive: Trump Officials Studying Obama's Security Plan in Case Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push Works
In the first weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump entered the White House, his special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Jason Greenblatt, held a number of me...
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US faces struggle to ease nervous Asian allies’ fears of a retreat
When James Mattis speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, the US defence secretary will face a very different landscape from the one that greeted his prede...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Kim Jong Un Spurs Asian Race for Missile-Defense Systems
Kim Jong Un’s near-weekly rocket launches are spurring a push for missile-defense systems across Asia that risk sharpening divisions between China and U.S. allies in the regio...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
President Trump has announced the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Rich Lowry says the accord is a big nothing-burger, with the Left saying it's voluntary so wh...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Fact Check: Why did the NSA breach privacy protections?
National Security Agency analysts under the Obama administration improperly searched Americans' information, but the searches were conducted largely out of error, according to...
By Adam Klein
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Trump delays moving U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver that delays moving the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — kicking the can down the road in the hopes th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
